And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.
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Gill's Exposition
And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren,.... To the father and brethren of Dinah; he addressed them after his father Hamor had done speaking:
let me find grace in your eyes; forgive…
- Dinah’s Dishonor This chapter records the rape of Dinah and the revenge of her brothers. Gen 34:1-5 Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land. The Jewish doctors of a later period fix the…
Jacob's sons, when they heard of the injury done to Dinah, showed a very great resentment of it, influenced perhaps rather by jealousy for the honour of their family than by a sense of virtue. Many…
Cambridge Bible
And Shechem Here, and in Gen 34:34, Shechem makes his own) overtures to Jacob and his sons. In Gen 34:34; Gen 34:8-10, Hamor has been negotiating on behalf of Shechem.